Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.